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A fund for toxic waste
Oped, Editorial, Published on 24/04/2024
» Accidents involving toxic waste are not unusual in Thailand. With weak law enforcement and irresponsible operators, Thai society has been affected by several accidents and threats caused by toxic waste management or the lack thereof.
Cadmium plan lacking
Oped, Editorial, Published on 16/04/2024
» In an effort to quash the public health scare that followed the discovery of illegal cadmium tailings that were illegally transported from Tak to several locations around the capital, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has ordered the toxic waste be returned to its source.
Crisis in waste management
Oped, Editorial, Published on 09/04/2024
» The sight of our officials and ministers frantically searching for carcinogenic cadmium tailings is a reminder of how hopeless the state's toxic waste policy management has been. Without a major revamp, similar problems will only recur.
The toxic legacy left by the Green Revolution
Oped, Published on 15/02/2024
» There are more than 390,000 identified plant species in the world, but just three -- rice, maize, and wheat -- account for roughly 60% of the plant-based calories in our diets. The dominance of these three grains is largely the result of major technological breakthroughs, particularly the development of high-yielding varieties (HYVs) of rice and wheat during the Green Revolution of the 1960s.
Black marks for recycling
Oped, Editorial, Published on 08/11/2023
» Environmental justice finally prevailed for a community in Ratchaburi province that has suffered from the environmental impacts of garbage recycling for almost two decades.
Put toxic dust fears to bed
Oped, Editorial, Published on 05/04/2023
» The news about a caesium-137 tube that disappeared from a power plant and is believed to have been melted at a steel factory is quickly fading from view. But the problem hasn't gone away and is likely to resurface amid anticipated protests as the government must find space to store the contaminated furnace dust.
Toxic reality of Thailand's BCG model
Oped, Published on 24/12/2022
» One of Thailand's buzzwords of 2022 has been "BCG" -- the acronym used for the Bio-Circular-Green Economic Model.
What the two Oct 6 tragedies expose
Oped, Chaiwat Satha-Anand, Published on 13/10/2022
» Early this month, a bright young colleague called me, telling a story about her difficulty in persuading a leading Thai research agency to explore how society could prepare policies to handle the prevalent problems of violence.
Time to ratify Basel ban on toxic waste
News, Published on 11/10/2021
» Last month, the Pollution Control Department (PCD) held an important public hearing that might end the problem of the import of hazardous waste to Thailand.
Killer app for humanity
News, Published on 30/06/2018
» Re: "Time to embrace the future", (BP, June 25).